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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them.

We cannot heal the throbbing heart till we discern the wounds within.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision. ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.